Here is how it usually goes. You and a few friends decide you want your own Minecraft world. Someone volunteers their laptop. Then come the router settings, the port forwarding guides that don't quite match your router, the firewall prompts, the server.properties file that breaks the moment you touch it, and the dawning realisation that your friend's laptop has to stay on forever. By the time anyone actually plays, the evening is gone.
We thought that was silly. So today we're opening the doors to Nebula: a place where you name a server, press a button, and play. That's the whole flow. No port forwarding, no editing files you've never heard of, no leaving a machine humming in the corner of your room.
What you actually get
Every Nebula server comes ready to share. You pick a version, give it a name, and we hand you an address your friends can paste straight into their game. Behind that simple address sits a proper, always-on server with the things you'd want as standard:
- A live console so you can watch your world tick along, run commands, and see who's joining in real time.
- Daily backups taken automatically, with one-click rollback for the day someone pours lava on the build.
- Java and Bedrock crossplay, so the friend on a phone and the friend on a PC can stand in the same field together.
- A mod installer that fetches and sets up mods and plugins for you, instead of making you wrangle JAR files by hand.
Built to stay up
Under the friendly surface, Nebula runs on Kubernetes with DDoS protection baked in. In plain terms: your world lives on infrastructure that's designed to keep running and shrug off the rubbish thrown at it, rather than on a laptop that needs to stay plugged in. You don't have to think about any of that, which is rather the point.
Free to start
You can spin up your first server free, no card required, and see whether the whole thing feels as easy as we say it does. When you're ready for more memory, more players, or a bigger world, you can move up a tier in a couple of clicks.
We've spent a long time on the boring parts so you don't have to. Name it, launch it, play. We'll see you in there.